• Embers Wood Fired Pizza, located at 7 Mattes Avenue, is having a pumpkin carving contest for children ages 12 and younger. Take a pumpkin home with you from Embers, carve or decorate it, and post a picture of your masterpiece on Embers’ Facebook page. The picture that has the most likes by 9 p.m. on Oct. 31 will be the winner. Entrants could win a $25 Embers Wood Fired Pizza gift card, a $25 Starmax movie theater gift card, and a Halloween gift basket. Be sure to share your children's photo with your friends to get more "likes" for a better chance to win. Also, wings will be half price and drafts will be a dollar off on Tuesday, Oct. 7, at Embers. There will also be a special going on next door at Huddle House, as customers can get two double cheeseburgers and two orders of fries for $6.99.

• Vandalia Subway now offers online ordering. Go to order.subway.com to place your order. Then stop by Subway at 915 Veterans Ave. to pick up your order 15 minutes after confirmation. There is a six-sandwich maximum on online orders.

• Who Says a Man Can’t Clean’s fall special is $25 off any service. Call 618-283-9994 for details.

• Be sure to visit Hosick Motor’s Facebook page,www.facebook.com/hosickmotors, and “like” the Free Oil Change post by 7 p.m. on Tuesday to enter the Free Oil Change Contest. The winner will be chosen at random.

• The “Wee Read” Reading Program is underway at Evans Public Library. Children ages 3 through first grade will receive prizes for every three books they read or are read to them. The program ends Oct. 27. Please call the library at 283-2824 or stop by to sign up.

• Discount tickets for Six Flags and Holiday World are available at Illinois Real Estate Services, 2425 W. Veterans Ave. You can save $12 on a one-day Six Flags pass and up to $4.95 on a Holiday World ticket. Tickets will be available until the end of October.